Jimmy Gelhaar is a commercial film composer, musician, singer/songwriter and performer. Through this website, you can learn more about his music, listen to many of his compositions, and browse and download his original works by clicking the TRACKS tab under "MUSIC". Because Jimmy is an avid supporter of education, non-profit, government and personal content creators, he has released many of his professionally composed and orchestrated tracks available for immediate download right from this site.

As a commercial film composer, Jimmy composes music in all styles, including classical, ambient, rock, acoustic, and electronic, for use in video and film, commercial beds, and a wide variety of customer music projects. If you would like to contact us, use the CONTACT link in the menu for direct access.

Thank you for visiting! And make sure you check out the new FILM REEL page for a couple of new reels we have just finished editing.

Play a sample of Jimmy Gehaar's work (please ensure your speakers are not turned up too loud as the music can be very powerful to start)

Clips from Manifest Destiny

Hallelujah - Jimmy, Bastiaan

Deceased Futurist

Commercial Music Project

By request!!! Don't miss your digitally remastered favorites on the newly released iTunes album. Get the highest quality recorded tracks from iTunes. You'll even find a bonus cover of Bastiaan Zijlstra and Jimmy Gelhaar doing a brand new version of the Leonard Cohen classic, "Hallelujah". If you've heard Jeff Buckley or K.D. Lang's versions, then you'll definitely not want to miss this version by Jimmy Gelhaar and Bastiaan Zijlstra!

The album's first 5 STAR review: "The whole album is great but I'm really loving your version of Hallelujah!!!! A great song beautifully done!" - tup2

Youtube

Hotel California

With close to 7 million video views on Youtube, Jimmy Gelhaar has made his presence known by creating an international following of very devoted fans.

In early 2008, Jimmy found Bastiaan Zijlstra on Youtube. Bastiaan is a talented guitarist from the Netherlands and Jimmy invited him to participate in remaking the classic Eagles anthem, Hotel California. With only the Internet and their personal computers at their disposal, they spent a month sending files back and forth and released the video on March 15th, 2008. Within just a few short months, the video was seen by over a million viewers. However, after 2 years on Youtube and over 5 million views, we removed the video in accordance with an agreement with Cass County Music. Every day we receive requests for the video and someday, we hope to be able to bring it back.

Stairway To Heaven

After we completed work on Hotel California, we went to work on Stairway To Heaven. Based on the amazing viewer feedback and letters we have been sent, this version of Stairway To Heaven has been even better received than our version of Hotel California.

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"Just like the story, this composition aroused many different feelings in my soul. When I heard it for the first time, I felt that something was missing in my life, and that song completed that hole. Thank you so much for creating such an extraordinary composition like this. You are, with no doubt, one of the most talented people that I have ever met in my life. Thank you for sharing this."

- User "shippo_caio"
Commenting on "Song For Francis"

Piano, Flute, Strings Version:

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Film Composer

Manifest Destiny

Jimmy Gelhaar's latest Hollywood project, Manifest Destiny, will be competing in "The Trailer Festival" in June, and shown in many film festivals in the coming months.

The Film Premiere was June 26th, 2010 in LA at the James Bridges Theater at UCLA. You can purchase copies of the film on the Crevice Entertainment website - www.creviceentertainment.com

The Lottery

Nominated for "Best Original Score" at the 2008 Vancouver Film Festival!

Won "Best Runner-Up Picture" and "Best Cinematography" at the 2008 North Shore Film Festival.

An amazing short film that reaches across the generations to tell an ancient story of ritual and blind faith.

Williamstown Pictures presents "The Lottery" produced by Liz Klassen, a short story written by Shirley Jackson, screenplay by Matt McInnis, original score by Jimmy Gelhaar, edited by Matt Drake, director of photography: Naim Sutherland, directed by Matt Drake and Matt McInnis.